Sunday, September 23, 2012

Twitter, Creative Commons, & The Google Effect!


This past week we talked about many different things.  One thing that I personally like that we talked about was twitter.  Most people consider twitter to be a website only for following friends and celebrities, but most people don’t think to follow things like tweets from the presidential candidates.  Well at least I know I never thought to follow important people like that.  I never even considered the president actually having his own twitter.  I could maybe see other people in his party tweeting for him because he is such a busy man.  But apparently he takes time out of his busy day to tweet things or at least approve of certain tweet.  If the tweet says “POTUS” then you know that it is something that the President of the United States tweeted or approved of himself.  Another interesting thing we learned about in class this last week was “creative common”.  Something that has a creative commons license means that you can use that specific material without having to worry about being sued.  Many things have creative common licenses, like music, videos, and images.  So by using these sources it can make life a whole lot easier because you wouldn’t have to worry about if you are breaking copy-write laws.  The last interesting thing I consider to be interesting was our class discussion about the article we had to read about for class. I thought our discussion was interesting because discussed the article on a broader scale and it got me to really thinking, especially when Bonnie talked about us being unplugged.  Today as I switched from Sprint to At&T and I was briefly unplugged, not knowing any of my phone number except for two that my aunt and dad have used for as long as I could remember.  That got me to thinking that maybe people using technology as memory banks isn’t such a good idea.  What happens when you are phoneless like I was today and you don’t know any of the important numbers you need.  Will you still think depending of technology to store things for us is a good idea.

2 comments:

  1. I really enjoyed reading your blog!!! One, because I'm a heavy tweeter :P and knowing that you could use twitter for quotes from important people is really interesting to me. I never thought twitter could actually be used for more than recreational purposes.

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  2. Although I don't have a twitter, I thought it was interesting that we are allowed to use that as a part of "New Media" when trying to find sources for a research project, etc. Also, I thought that we are heavily reliant on technology as a memory bank for the things we dont want to remember.

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